Early summer reproductive hiatus in wild adult white-footed mice

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1251-1256

  Terman, C Richard ^a   Terman, Jonathan R ^a,b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Peromyscus; Population; Reproductive hiatus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; HIATUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 0347658916     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383175     Document Type: Article

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